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Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today’s stories:

Author John Geoghegan shares with the Huffington Postthe history of book vending machines[8], which were first manufactured in London in 1822 and can now be found around the world.

A new translation of Proust’s poetry[9],[9]The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust—which includes a number of previously unpublished poems and was edited for Penguin Classics by Harold Augenbraum, who collaborated with twenty poets and translators—has been published today. (The Daily Beast)